The 1998 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Minneapolis, USA from March 29 through April 5. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

Medal tables Medalists Men Alexei Yagudin Todd Eldredge Evgeni Plushenko Ladies Michelle Kwan Irina Slutskaya Maria Butyrskaya Pair skating Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze Jenni Meno / Todd Sand Peggy Schwarz / Mirko Müller Ice dancing Anjelika Krylova / Oleg Ovsyannikov Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz

Medals by country

Competition notes Due to the large number of participants, the men's and ladies' qualifying groups were split into groups A and B.

Results Men Rank Name Nation TFP QA QB SP FS 1 Alexei Yagudin 2.5 2 1 2 2 Todd Eldredge 3.0 1 4 1 3 Evgeni Plushenko 5.0 1 2 4 4 Viacheslav Zagorodniuk 5.5 3 5 3 5 Andrejs Vlascenko 8.0 7 6 5 6 Michael Weiss 8.5 2 3 7 7 Steven Cousins 10.5 7 7 6 8 Jeffrey Langdon 12.0 5 8 8 9 Evgeni Pliuta 14.5 5 9 10 10 Szabolcs Vidrai 15.0 4 12 9 11 Takeshi Honda 16.5 3 11 11 12 Zhengxin Guo 19.0 9 14 12 13 Michael Tyllesen 23.0 13 18 14 14 Roman Skorniakov 23.5 6 21 13 15 Michael Shmerkin 24.0 11 10 19 16 Laurent Tobel 25.5 11 19 16 17 Anthony Liu 26.0 12 22 15 18 Margus Hernits 26.5 12 17 18 19 Markus Leminen 26.5 13 13 20 20 Patrick Meier 28.5 6 23 17 21 Ivan Dinev 28.5 4 15 21 22 Robert Grzegorczyk 31.0 10 16 23 23 Sven Meyer 34.0 10 24 22 24 Gilberto Viadana 34.0 8 20 24 Free skating not reached 25 Patrick Schmit 14 25 26 Yamato Tamura 9 26 27 Sergejs Telenkov 15 27 28 Vakhtang Murvanidze 15 28 29 Emanuel Sandhu 8 29 30 Lee Kyu-hyun 14 30 Short program not reached 31 Gheorghe Chiper 16 31 David Liu 16 33 Juraj Sviatko 17 33 Daniel Peinado 17 35 Panagiotis Markouizo 18 35 Ricardo Olavarrieta 18

Referee: Walburga Grimm

Assistant Referee: Charles Foster

Judges: Gavril Velchev Frank Parsons Elfriede Beyer Lucy J. Brennan Seppo Kurtti Prisca Binz-Moser Ingelise Blangsted Agnes Morvai Odile Guedj

Substitute judge: Fabio Bianchetti

Ladies Rank Name Nation TFP QA QB SP FS 1 Michelle Kwan 1.5 1 1 1 2 Irina Slutskaya 4.0 2 4 2 3 Maria Butyrskaya 5.5 1 5 3 4 Laetitia Hubert 5.5 8 3 4 5 Anna Rechnio 6.0 2 2 5 6 Tonia Kwiatkowski 10.0 4 8 6 7 Elena Liashenko 10.0 3 6 7 8 Elena Sokolova 14.5 3 13 8 9 Tanja Szewczenko 15.0 6 10 10 10 Diána Póth 16.5 8 15 9 11 Julia Vorobieva 16.5 5 11 11 12 Julia Lavrenchuk 19.0 4 12 13 13 Joanne Carter 20.0 6 16 12 14 Tatiana Malinina 21.5 5 7 18 15 Lenka Kulovaná 22.5 10 17 14 16 Vanessa Gusmeroli 23.5 7 9 19 17 Marie-Pierre Leray 25.0 14 18 16 18 Silvia Fontana 25.5 9 21 15 19 Júlia Sebestyén 27.0 9 20 17 20 Angela Derochie 29.5 11 19 20 21 Zuzana Paurová 30.0 11 14 23 22 Shizuka Arakawa 32.0 7 22 21 23 Lucinda Ruh 34.0 10 24 22 24 Mojca Kopač 35.5 12 23 24 Free skating not reached 25 Alisa Drei 12 25 26 Anna Wenzel 14 26 27 Anna Lundström 13 27 28 Marta Andrade 13 28 29 Choi Hyung-kyung 15 29 30 Yankun Du 15 30 Short program not reached 31 Ivana Jakupčević 16 31 Olga Vassiljeva 16 33 Shirene Human 17 33 Valeria Trifancova 17 35 Lauryna Slavinskaite 18 35 Helena Pajović 18 37 Anna Chatziathanassiou 19 37 Roxana Luca 19 39 Rocia Salas 20 WD Kaja Hanevold

Referee: Ronald Pfenning

Assistant Referee: Gerhardt Bubnik

Judges: Julianna Beke Alfred Korytek Marianne Oeverby Hideo Sugita Rafaella Loccatelli Christa Gunsam Jacqueline Itschner Susan Heffernan Liliana Strechova

Substitute judge: Wendy Langdon

Pairs Rank Name Nation TFP SP FS 1 Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze 2.0 2 1 2 Jenni Meno / Todd Sand 2.5 1 2 3 Peggy Schwarz / Mirko Müller 4.5 3 3 4 Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo 7.0 6 4 5 Dorota Zagórska / Mariusz Siudek 8.0 4 6 6 Marina Eltsova / Andrei Bushkov 8.5 7 5 7 Kristy Sargeant / Kris Wirtz 9.5 5 7 8 Sarah Abitbol / Stéphane Bernadis 12.0 8 8 9 Marie-Claude Savard-Gagnon / Luc Bradet 15.0 12 9 10 Shelby Lyons / Brian Wells 15.0 10 10 11 Marina Khalturina / Andrei Kriukov 15.5 9 11 12 Evgenia Filonenko / Igor Marchenko 16.5 11 12 13 Marsha Poluliaschenko / Andrew Seabrook 20.5 15 13 14 Kateřina Beránková / Otto Dlabola 20.5 13 14 15 Danielle McGrath / Stephen Carr 22.0 14 15 16 Elaine Asanakis / Alcuin Schulten 24.0 16 16 17 Inga Rodionova / Alexander Anichenko 26.0 18 17 18 Oľga Beständigová / Jozef Beständig 26.5 17 18 19 Jelena Sirokhvatova / Juri Salmanov 29.0 20 19 20 Jekaterina Nekrassova / Valdis Mintals 29.5 19 20 WD Oksana Kazakova / Artur Dmitriev WD Kyoko Ina / Jason Dungjen

Referee: Sally-Anne Stapleford

Assistant Referee: Marie Lundmark

Judges: Maria Zuchowicz Jiasheng Yang Hugh Graham Igor Prokop Gьnther Teichmann Robert Worsfold Ubavka Novakovic-Kytinoy Susan Lynch Alain Miguel

Substitute judge: Vladislav Petukhov

Ice dancing Rank Name Nation TFP CD1 CD2 OD FD 1 Anjelika Krylova / Oleg Ovsyannikov 2.0 1 1 1 1 2 Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat 4.2 3 2 2 2 3 Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz 5.8 2 3 3 3 4 Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh 8.0 4 4 4 4 5 Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio 10.4 6 6 5 5 6 Elizabeth Punsalan / Jerod Swallow 11.6 5 5 6 6 7 Irina Romanova / Igor Yaroshenko 14.6 9 8 7 7 8 Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas 15.6 7 7 8 8 9 Kati Winkler / René Lohse 17.8 8 9 9 9 10 Tatiana Navka / Nikolai Morozov 20.6 11 12 10 10 11 Sylwia Nowak / Sebastian Kolasinski 21.6 10 10 11 11 12 Kateřina Mrázová / Martin Šimeček 23.8 12 11 12 12 13 Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov 26.0 13 13 13 13 14 Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhanovsky 29.2 16 15 15 14 15 Anna Semenovich / Vladimir Fedorov 29.4 15 15 14 15 16 Diane Gerencser / Pasquale Camerlengo 31.6 14 16 16 16 17 Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviyski 34.0 17 17 17 17 18 Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder 36.4 19 19 18 18 19 Chantal Lefebvre / Michel Brunet 37.6 18 18 19 19 20 Zuzana Merzova / Tomas Morbacher 40.6 20 20 21 20 21 Angelika Füring / Bruno Ellinger 43.2 22 23 22 21 22 Elizaveta Stekolnikova / Dmitri Kazarlyga 44.2 20 21 20 24 23 Charlotte Clements / Gary Shortland 45.6 24 25 23 22 24 Dominique Deniaud / Martial Jaffredo 46.4 23 22 24 23 Free dance not reached 25 Jessica Joseph / Charles Butler 26 24 29 26 Eliane Hugentobler / Daniel Hugentobler 28 28 26 27 Ksenia Smetanenko / Samvel Gezalian 27 26 27 28 Aya Kawai / Hiroshi Tanaka 25 27 28 29 Kornélia Bárány / András Rosnik 29 29 29 30 Margarita Fourer / Timothy Heinecke 30 30 30

Referee: Ann Shaw

Assistant Referee: Ludmila Mikhailovskaya

Judges: Katalin Alpern Elena Buriak Monika Zeidler Yury Balkov Isabella Micheli Armelle Van Eybergen Patricia S. French Irina Absaliamova Janet Coton

Substitute judge: Evgenia Karnolska

External links 1998 Worlds results